entretuve
[ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞e]
The verdict
“entretuve” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,001 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,001
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-entretuve · entretuve · Spanish
entretuve · rank #93,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH envejecidos
Nearest frequency peer: envejecidos (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “entretuve”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- endureciendo
endureciendo
7,004 corpus weight
- engalana
engalana
7,003 corpus weight
- enjaulados
enjaulados
7,002 corpus weight
- entretuve
entretuve
7,000 corpus weight
- envejecidos
envejecidos
6,999 corpus weight
- envejeció
envejeció
6,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “entretuve” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | entretuve |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “entretuve” en español
Rare enough to double-check
entretuve is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,001 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽn̪t̪ɾeˈt̪uβ̞e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for entretuve, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is entretuve, spelled E-N-T-R-E-T-U-V-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de entretener o de entretenerse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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